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Mar 10, 2013Bacon Thoughts

I've eaten a lot of bacon foods and here are my current thoughts on the best and worst bacon products I've had.

The worst was easily the bacon lollipop. It tastes like you are just licking bacon fat off a stick. Don't get it, you wont like it.

The best bacon product to date (note I didn't put the date on the worst because I can't imagine anything worse) is bacon jerky. Try it, I bet you'll like it, presuming you enjoy bacon.

Also random aside here if you see bacon floss or chapstick don't get them. They don't taste like bacon.

Feb 04, 2013Texting While Driving

I despise this new "no texting while driving law".

First how do they enforce this new law? Does the cop pull one over and ask for the driver's phone? That seems like an invasion of privacy to me.

This law almost does nothing to improve the driving conditions in Massachusetts. You can still eat a hamburger, drink a slush puppie, add contacts to your phone, dial phone numbers, or do just about anything with your hands so long as it is not texting (reading, or composing). The law is so specific it is almost pointless, unless I guess you crashed your car while texting? Maybe in that one instance it would be useful?

So I was driving around one day and figured "hey, I bet I can find a good deal for Curb Your Enthusiasm online somewhere (having seen them a few years earlier for +$30 a season)". I find this site that looks pretty suspicious but they offer payment through paypal. I figure what the heck if they con me I'll just get paypal to refund me. I pay them in September and get an email from them with tracking information, GREAT, right? Nope, tracking number doesn't track to any site, I contact them and they send me to "their tracker" which says it is in China, it is now the end of October at this point. So I ask why it's there and when I can actually expect it to which I get no response. So I open a claim with paypal, and make an order from another site for thirty dollars more than the previous site was going to cost while being two seasons short of the full set. A month later I have my six season set and paypal has just ruled in my favor because the site I ordered from is no longer online and won't respond to them either. Another month later I have a slip at my house that says I have a package from China, so I think...What have I ordered from China? and head to the post office. I get to the post office and sure enough it is the DVD set (had to open it at home to confirm, at that point can't return to sender). So now I have a full eight season set and a six season set, pending this site that Bermuda Triangled contacting me.